INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS FOR THE PREPARATION OF PAPERS
FOR DASIA 2015 CONFERENCE
Principal Author Name (1), Co-Author Name (1), Co-Author Name (2)
(1) Affiliation, Complete mailing address (including country), Email:
(2) Affiliation, Complete mailing address (including country), Email:
ABSTRACT
3. HEADERS AND FOOTERS
The Proceedings of the Symposium will be published by
ESA as Special Publication SP-732 on CD-ROM.
Both the header and the footer should be left empty.
Do not add page numbers.
Authors must deliver their full papers by 29 May
2015 as PDF files to the email address given in
Section 11.
4. TITLE AND AUTHOR AFFILIATION
Please read the following instructions for the
preparation of your paper in accordance with ESA’s
standards for conference proceedings. Each submission
should resemble these instruction sheets in format
and style. Start with a concise abstract (limited to 15
lines or 150 words) that summarises the contents of the
paper.
1. GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS
The paper must be prepared in this two-column format
and must not be longer than 8 pages.
2. PAGE LAYOUT
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Paper format: standard A4 (297x210 mm),
two-column format (8 cm each column),
margins: top 25 mm, left and right 20 mm, bottom
37 mm,
fully justified.
Font:
Text:
Variable:
Symbol:
Times New Roman
Times New Roman italic
True Type Symbol font
Type Size:
Paper title:
Author(s):
Affiliation(s):
Normal text:
Captions:
Text in tables:
Symbols:
Sub/superscript:
12 pt bold (TITLE)
10 pt bold (Author)
10 pt italic (Affiliation)
10 pt (regular text)
10 pt italic (Figure…)
9 pt
10 pt (Ω≅φ)
7 pt (x y)
For LaTex users: a set of macros is available on the
ESA Publications Conference Proceedings website at:
http://www.esa.int/publications/authors
The paper title, author(s) name(s), affiliation, complete
mailing address and email should be centred at the top
of the first page using the fonts and type sizes indicated
above. If there are several authors, the complete
affiliation should be given for each of them using
superscripts (1) in the authors list to refer to them.
5. HEADINGS
This sheet has been produced in accordance with
thestyle to be followed for the headings. Use the
decimalsystem in Arabic figures for the numbering of
headings and subheadings. Major (or section) headings
are to bein capitals and bold.
5.1
Subheadings
Subheadings or subsection headings are to be in lower
case with initial capitals and bold font. They should be
flush with the left-hand margin, on a separate line.
6. EQUATIONS
Equations are to be numbered consecutively throughout
the paper. Each equation number must be unique.
Equations should be centred, with the equation number
in parentheses flush with the right-hand margin of the
column. Leave a blank line before and after equations.
Always refer to equations by number, as Eq. 1 or
Eqs. 3-6, not as ‘above’ or ‘below’.
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7. FIGURES AND TABLES
Figures and tables can extend over two columns if
required. Figure captions should be centred below the
figures; table captions should be centred above the
tables. Use full word ‘Figure 1’ or ‘Table 1’ in the
caption. Use the abbreviation “Fig. 1” or “Tab. 1” in the
text (even at the beginning of a sentence).
10. PDF PREPARATION
In order to allow reasonable quality printing, please
avoid excessive compression when making your PDF
file. Generally, image resolutions should be
300 dpi for greyscale and colour.
VERY IMPORTANT: EMBED ALL FONTS and
ensure that the PDF’s security setting is on
‘NO SECURITY’.
Figure 1.Warsaw, DASIA 2014.
8. ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they
are used in the text, even after they have been defined in
the abstract. Do not use abbreviations in the title unless
they are unavoidable.
9. REFERENCES
Number citations consecutively in square brackets [1].
Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]. Do not
use ‘Ref. [3]’ or ‘reference [3]’ except at the beginning
of a sentence: ‘Reference [3] was the first …’. The title
of the book or of the journal should be in italic script.
Further information is available in “How to reference a
publication” at:
http://www.esa.int/esapub/conference/references.pdf
9.1 Sample References
1.
Smith, J.M., Adams, B.A. & Wilson, A. (2002).
The Future for Asteroid Exploration. Planet. Space
Sci. 285(11), 123–126.
2.
Johnson, A.B. & Radice, X.T. (2002). Comets for
Beginners,
Cambridge
University
Press,
Cambridge, UK, pp103–106.
3.
Svalgaard, L. & LeSager, P. (2003). What
Heliosesimology Teaches us About the Sun. In
Proc. 4th. ISCS ‘Solar Variability as an Input to
the Earth’s Environment’ (Eds. H. Lacoste & H.
Xerxes), ESA SP-535 (CD-ROM), European
Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
11. SUBMITTING THE PAPER
The deadline for submission is
29 May 2015
Papers are to be delivered by mail to the following
address:
[email protected]
The filename must clearly identify the paper. Use the
session number followed by the name of the main
author (e.g. s1_smith.pdf), Use only lower case.
Papers must be delivered by 29 May 2015 at the
latest if they are to be included on the CD.
Confirmation of receipt will be sent.
For further information about preparing your paper,
please contact:
Leny Ouwehand, Editor
ESA Communications, DGC-CBE
ESA/ESTEC
Tel: +31 71 565 4971
Email: [email protected]